March 25, 2019

Howard Hisdal: "Defeating the German Army in 1918: the 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles and the Hundred Days Campaign from Amiens to Mons"

This presentation looks at the last hundred days of the First World War which ended on November 11th, 1918. The viewpoint is that of the 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles, a regiment recruited in the Okanagan and Victoria, and led by Lieutenant Colonel Chalmers Johnston, a militia officer from Vernon. Professor Howard Hisdal, CD, MA, will look at the tactics and leadership that made the 2nd CMR and the entire Canadian Corps into a highly efficient fighting machine that drove back the German Army and helped win the war. The myth is that the First World War was a stalemate. It was not.​Howard Hisdal Biography: Professor Howard Hisdal, CD, MA, attended Royal Roads Military College in Victoria, and graduated with a BA in History from Royal Military College in Kingston. He earned his MA in History at Carleton University in Ottawa. He has 25 years of military service, 18 of those years as an officer in the British Columbia Dragoons, the descendant of the 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles. He retired as a captain in 2014. The “CD” stands for Canadian Forces Decoration for honorable service. Howard has taught history at Okanagan College since 2005 and is the chair of the History Department. He is also the vice-president of the Okanagan Military Museum Society and on the board of directors for the Kelowna Museums Society.

Professor Howard Hisdal

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